First, the "new" Miss Marple series is anything but the original character based on Dame Agatha Christie's books. Everything is changed including characters, plots, settings. So why use Christie's name and call it Miss Marple?? They simply need to pander this trash to people who don't read the books.
Bertram's Hotel is probably my favorite Miss Marple book because Miss Marple goes to a posh hotel she knew as a child and nothing has changed. Bertram's was portrayed in the book as stylish and a throwback to Edwardian times.
In this latest recreation by the BBC, Miss Marple enters Bertrams and it's the equivalent of Grand Central Station. New characters are thrown in, including a set of twins, a Black singer who looks like an NFL player in drag, even SATCHMO himself!! The main characters of Bess Sedgewick and her daughter and completely rewritten. Agatha Christie's Bess Sedgewick was a classy, blonde, thrill-seeker with a lust for life and danger. In this 90 minute pain fest she's an overweight, brunette, drudge. She's also relegated to the background.
Agatha Christie's work is changed so much it's unrecognizable. Her tautly written plot-twists and multi-dimensional characters are gone. So are the settings. This Bertram's Hotel has Miss Marple looking and acting like an elderly Shirley Temple. With a head full of curls, twinkling her eyes and looking cutesy and ditsy. Gone is the spinster with the ability to see all and the intelligence to figure out everything while being underestimated.
Mindless reworking of Christie's wonderful plots and characters make this Miss Marple unwatchable. Let's call it "Miss Marple for Dummies." THIS IS NOT REALLY A SPOILER, but I had to mention here that Miss Marple is NOT really the sleuth in this Bertram's. THE MAID DOES ALL THE SLEUTHING, AND MISS MARPLE SITS BACK (literally), WHILE THE MAID CONCLUDES THE MYSTERY.
Absolutely DREADFUL.
Bertram's Hotel is probably my favorite Miss Marple book because Miss Marple goes to a posh hotel she knew as a child and nothing has changed. Bertram's was portrayed in the book as stylish and a throwback to Edwardian times.
In this latest recreation by the BBC, Miss Marple enters Bertrams and it's the equivalent of Grand Central Station. New characters are thrown in, including a set of twins, a Black singer who looks like an NFL player in drag, even SATCHMO himself!! The main characters of Bess Sedgewick and her daughter and completely rewritten. Agatha Christie's Bess Sedgewick was a classy, blonde, thrill-seeker with a lust for life and danger. In this 90 minute pain fest she's an overweight, brunette, drudge. She's also relegated to the background.
Agatha Christie's work is changed so much it's unrecognizable. Her tautly written plot-twists and multi-dimensional characters are gone. So are the settings. This Bertram's Hotel has Miss Marple looking and acting like an elderly Shirley Temple. With a head full of curls, twinkling her eyes and looking cutesy and ditsy. Gone is the spinster with the ability to see all and the intelligence to figure out everything while being underestimated.
Mindless reworking of Christie's wonderful plots and characters make this Miss Marple unwatchable. Let's call it "Miss Marple for Dummies." THIS IS NOT REALLY A SPOILER, but I had to mention here that Miss Marple is NOT really the sleuth in this Bertram's. THE MAID DOES ALL THE SLEUTHING, AND MISS MARPLE SITS BACK (literally), WHILE THE MAID CONCLUDES THE MYSTERY.
Absolutely DREADFUL.